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Art and Math connect for class
"Journalism is a license to dabble at the margins of great tvriting, tvithout the risks."—Robert McNeil, co-anchor ofMcNeil-Leherer Netoshour
Stone Temple Pilots
Back from rehab and rockin' the Arena
3
Gun crazy
Chris Townsend takes on Gun Control in America
4
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November 19. 19%
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Are you worth only 2/3rds of a student?
¦ Funding for the Bothell campus is based on a formula that treats Bothell students as if they were only worth 2/3rds of a full-time student. Have you ever wondered why the campus closes so early on weeknights and seems to have such crowded facilities? This is why.
Richard Huffman
Commons Editor
Access to Excellence. That's the stated mis¬ sion of the University of Washington Both¬ ell. The administration. Student Services and Academic Support Services all strive might¬ ily to provide the greatest amount of access to higher education, while maintaining high academic standards. Unfortunately the for¬ mula used for determining funding for the UW Bothell campus severely hamstrings the various programs and services of the campus, forcing them into compromises that they would rather not make.
Many students have come to school on a
Friday after work only to find that the cam¬ pus closed at 5:00 pm. Other students have been turned away from the computer lab be¬ cause every computer is occupied and a wait¬ ing line winds its way out the door. These and many other frustrations are all partially relics of the formulation adopted by the Washing¬ ton State legislature to fund the state's public universities. Instead of basing funding stricdy on a headcount of students at a particular school, the legislature bases funding on a fic¬ tional representation ofa student, known as a FiJI Time Equivalent student, or FTE. An FTE student is the equivalent of one or many students taking 15 undergraduate credits a quarter. Three students taking a total of three 5-credit classes is equal to one FTE 'student,' as is one student who takes three 5-credit classes.
This formulation works well for the Se¬ attle UW campus, which seems to serve a fairly traditional student population that, on aver¬ age, attends school virtually full time. In fall of 1994 (the most recent year for which we were able to obtain statistics) there were 33,719 students attending the Seattle cam¬ pus. The FTE amount for that same year was 30,711, which means that the average student
See Funding on page 3
Sailing the world; with texts in tow
Carol Marston Commons Rsportsr
The Semester at Sea program allows students to learn more in three months than they could learn in three years at college, claims Professor Alan Wood. Wood spoke to 30 students last week about his experiences serv¬ ing as a professor on the Semester at Sea ship. "It is an intensely human experience," said Wood. "You learn a sense of humanity. It is an in-depth.
ptxjto by Richard Hu«man
Bothell's Dorothy Arabas and Alan Wood are tfoth veterans of the Semester at Sea program.
overwhelmingly emotional as well as educational experience."
The Semester at Sea program was created almost 30 years ago by a Hong Kong business man. A large cruise ship goes on two round-the- world voyages a year with hundreds
of students taking classes on ship while visiting dozens of international ports of call during 100-day sailings. Students from over one hundred and fifty schools are represented on the ship each sailing. Students can choose from approximately 50 up¬ per and lower division courses in¬ cluding subjects as varied as Business and Music, Economics and English, Communications and Religious Studies, to name a few. The Univer¬ sity of Pittsburgh serves as academic sponsor for the program and grants undergraduate academic credits which are accepted in Bothell's Lib¬ eral Studies and Business programs.
Students travel to special areas of political, cultural and social interest where they can interact with local people. From canoeing on the Ama¬ zon, to walking on the Great Wall of China, the learning experiences offered lead to relationships not possible on regular campuses, claimed a promo¬ tional video that Wood showed.
"Classes are fairly small, about 30 students and are conducted while the ship is at sea, between ports" ex¬ plained Wood. Students must take at least 12 semester hours and can¬ not exceed 15. The ship's itinerary in the Spring and Fall of 1997 reads like the adventures of Indiana Jones, with ports of call in Venezuela, In-
provided photo
All aboard The recently replaced SS Universe served as a floating classroom for the Semester at Sea program.
dia, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Kenya, Shanghai, Japan and others. Spring Semester runs from January 27 through May 3rd while Fall Semes¬ ter starts on September 14 and ends December 23rd.
The Semester at Sea ship weighs 18,000 tons and comes equipped with classrooms, a theater, computer lab, hospital (manned by a medical staff from Seattles own Group Health), dining hall, study lounge, swimming pool, darkroom and "the world's largest floating library with 10,000 volumes" according to Wood. It is the only ship of its kind in the world today and is home to 500 students when in session.
The program sponsors cautions
that participants require a high de¬ gree of tolerance and flexibility to fully appreciate the experience. There isn't much privacy. Dorm- style rooms house 2 to 3 people. Everyone must cooperate.
Wood also commented on the potential downside to the Semester at Sea program. Alcohol abuse is rampant. Also, it seems that no mat¬ ter how much the professors warn the students not to climb on the pyramids in Egypt, every few years or so a student will climb anyway, slip off, and get killed.
On board the ship, a wide range of activities are available. Everything
See At Sea on page 2
News Briefs
Burma expert to speak
Tao Kwan-Gett, a Seattle pediatri¬ cian, will speak and show slides this Thursday evening at UW Bothell. Dr. Gett spent several months last spring on the Burma- Thailand border helping refugees fleeing from Burma, which is currently controlled by the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC), who some claim is a totalitarian regime that has brutally suppressed the Burmese people. The slide presentation is entitled The Burmese Refugee Project: The Work of Dr. Cynthia Maung." The refugee clinic was established by Dr. Maung, a local physician, to provide much need basic health services and education for these displaced people. The presenta¬ tion will be at 6:00 pm, the location will be posted on campus. For further information, contact Bruoe Kochis at 685-5364 or bkochis@u.washingtion.edu.
Holiday Party tickets go on sale students, staff and faculty are invited to the end of the quarter holiday party. The event, "An Evening of Enchantment" will be held at the Montevilla Farm¬ house, located one exit south of the Bothell campus on 1-405. This is the second year in a row for a holiday party, following on the heels of last year's successful Christmas gathering. The semi- formal event will take place on December 19, from 7:00 to 11:00 PM. Tickets are on sale from now until December 12th. Tickets are $12.50, and includes hors d'oeuvres, no-host bar, raffle prizes, and dancing. For more information contact the student govemment in room 172.
Campbell resign ASUWB, Carter takes over Rachael Campbell has resigned as a student representa¬ tive from the Bothell student government. Mack Carter was appointed by ASUWB last week to replace Campbell. Rachael was elected last spring to student rep position number four. Carter will finish out the rest of Campbell's term, which ends next month along with all of the other student body representative terms. Carter is also running in next month's elections for the student body representative term for winter and spring quarters.
New campus design to be shown Top San Francisco architect Cathy Simon will present three dimensional mock-ups of her plans for the new UW Bothell campus this Wednesday in the Commons from 1 to 3 pm The new campus will be built in stages at the Truly Farms site located one mile south of the current campus off of 1-405 The campus will be collocated with the new Cascadia Community College. The expected opening date for the new campus is 1999.

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2*r-
When in Rome...
%
Art and Math connect for class
"Journalism is a license to dabble at the margins of great tvriting, tvithout the risks."—Robert McNeil, co-anchor ofMcNeil-Leherer Netoshour
Stone Temple Pilots
Back from rehab and rockin' the Arena
3
Gun crazy
Chris Townsend takes on Gun Control in America
4
The Sn'DEhfT NEw^p,\ptR
OF THE UNI\lR«>mf OF
W.\.sHiNcrroN Botheu
Voil'ME 2
l.ssut 7
November 19. 19%
^'^-^-
Are you worth only 2/3rds of a student?
¦ Funding for the Bothell campus is based on a formula that treats Bothell students as if they were only worth 2/3rds of a full-time student. Have you ever wondered why the campus closes so early on weeknights and seems to have such crowded facilities? This is why.
Richard Huffman
Commons Editor
Access to Excellence. That's the stated mis¬ sion of the University of Washington Both¬ ell. The administration. Student Services and Academic Support Services all strive might¬ ily to provide the greatest amount of access to higher education, while maintaining high academic standards. Unfortunately the for¬ mula used for determining funding for the UW Bothell campus severely hamstrings the various programs and services of the campus, forcing them into compromises that they would rather not make.
Many students have come to school on a
Friday after work only to find that the cam¬ pus closed at 5:00 pm. Other students have been turned away from the computer lab be¬ cause every computer is occupied and a wait¬ ing line winds its way out the door. These and many other frustrations are all partially relics of the formulation adopted by the Washing¬ ton State legislature to fund the state's public universities. Instead of basing funding stricdy on a headcount of students at a particular school, the legislature bases funding on a fic¬ tional representation ofa student, known as a FiJI Time Equivalent student, or FTE. An FTE student is the equivalent of one or many students taking 15 undergraduate credits a quarter. Three students taking a total of three 5-credit classes is equal to one FTE 'student,' as is one student who takes three 5-credit classes.
This formulation works well for the Se¬ attle UW campus, which seems to serve a fairly traditional student population that, on aver¬ age, attends school virtually full time. In fall of 1994 (the most recent year for which we were able to obtain statistics) there were 33,719 students attending the Seattle cam¬ pus. The FTE amount for that same year was 30,711, which means that the average student
See Funding on page 3
Sailing the world; with texts in tow
Carol Marston Commons Rsportsr
The Semester at Sea program allows students to learn more in three months than they could learn in three years at college, claims Professor Alan Wood. Wood spoke to 30 students last week about his experiences serv¬ ing as a professor on the Semester at Sea ship. "It is an intensely human experience," said Wood. "You learn a sense of humanity. It is an in-depth.
ptxjto by Richard Hu«man
Bothell's Dorothy Arabas and Alan Wood are tfoth veterans of the Semester at Sea program.
overwhelmingly emotional as well as educational experience."
The Semester at Sea program was created almost 30 years ago by a Hong Kong business man. A large cruise ship goes on two round-the- world voyages a year with hundreds
of students taking classes on ship while visiting dozens of international ports of call during 100-day sailings. Students from over one hundred and fifty schools are represented on the ship each sailing. Students can choose from approximately 50 up¬ per and lower division courses in¬ cluding subjects as varied as Business and Music, Economics and English, Communications and Religious Studies, to name a few. The Univer¬ sity of Pittsburgh serves as academic sponsor for the program and grants undergraduate academic credits which are accepted in Bothell's Lib¬ eral Studies and Business programs.
Students travel to special areas of political, cultural and social interest where they can interact with local people. From canoeing on the Ama¬ zon, to walking on the Great Wall of China, the learning experiences offered lead to relationships not possible on regular campuses, claimed a promo¬ tional video that Wood showed.
"Classes are fairly small, about 30 students and are conducted while the ship is at sea, between ports" ex¬ plained Wood. Students must take at least 12 semester hours and can¬ not exceed 15. The ship's itinerary in the Spring and Fall of 1997 reads like the adventures of Indiana Jones, with ports of call in Venezuela, In-
provided photo
All aboard The recently replaced SS Universe served as a floating classroom for the Semester at Sea program.
dia, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Kenya, Shanghai, Japan and others. Spring Semester runs from January 27 through May 3rd while Fall Semes¬ ter starts on September 14 and ends December 23rd.
The Semester at Sea ship weighs 18,000 tons and comes equipped with classrooms, a theater, computer lab, hospital (manned by a medical staff from Seattles own Group Health), dining hall, study lounge, swimming pool, darkroom and "the world's largest floating library with 10,000 volumes" according to Wood. It is the only ship of its kind in the world today and is home to 500 students when in session.
The program sponsors cautions
that participants require a high de¬ gree of tolerance and flexibility to fully appreciate the experience. There isn't much privacy. Dorm- style rooms house 2 to 3 people. Everyone must cooperate.
Wood also commented on the potential downside to the Semester at Sea program. Alcohol abuse is rampant. Also, it seems that no mat¬ ter how much the professors warn the students not to climb on the pyramids in Egypt, every few years or so a student will climb anyway, slip off, and get killed.
On board the ship, a wide range of activities are available. Everything
See At Sea on page 2
News Briefs
Burma expert to speak
Tao Kwan-Gett, a Seattle pediatri¬ cian, will speak and show slides this Thursday evening at UW Bothell. Dr. Gett spent several months last spring on the Burma- Thailand border helping refugees fleeing from Burma, which is currently controlled by the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC), who some claim is a totalitarian regime that has brutally suppressed the Burmese people. The slide presentation is entitled The Burmese Refugee Project: The Work of Dr. Cynthia Maung." The refugee clinic was established by Dr. Maung, a local physician, to provide much need basic health services and education for these displaced people. The presenta¬ tion will be at 6:00 pm, the location will be posted on campus. For further information, contact Bruoe Kochis at 685-5364 or bkochis@u.washingtion.edu.
Holiday Party tickets go on sale students, staff and faculty are invited to the end of the quarter holiday party. The event, "An Evening of Enchantment" will be held at the Montevilla Farm¬ house, located one exit south of the Bothell campus on 1-405. This is the second year in a row for a holiday party, following on the heels of last year's successful Christmas gathering. The semi- formal event will take place on December 19, from 7:00 to 11:00 PM. Tickets are on sale from now until December 12th. Tickets are $12.50, and includes hors d'oeuvres, no-host bar, raffle prizes, and dancing. For more information contact the student govemment in room 172.
Campbell resign ASUWB, Carter takes over Rachael Campbell has resigned as a student representa¬ tive from the Bothell student government. Mack Carter was appointed by ASUWB last week to replace Campbell. Rachael was elected last spring to student rep position number four. Carter will finish out the rest of Campbell's term, which ends next month along with all of the other student body representative terms. Carter is also running in next month's elections for the student body representative term for winter and spring quarters.
New campus design to be shown Top San Francisco architect Cathy Simon will present three dimensional mock-ups of her plans for the new UW Bothell campus this Wednesday in the Commons from 1 to 3 pm The new campus will be built in stages at the Truly Farms site located one mile south of the current campus off of 1-405 The campus will be collocated with the new Cascadia Community College. The expected opening date for the new campus is 1999.